BUDGET FINANCING AND IMPLEMENTATION

Overview

Within Programme budget 2020-2021, the budget was approved by the World Health Assembly by outcome. Prioritization of work by the countries was also carried out by outcome, as was the development of the bottom-up budget. The result is a strong association between the highest prioritized outcomes and their budget levels – for example the outcomes prioritized as high by country offices were allocated 87% of the budget and 86% of the available funding for country offices.

At the end of the biennium, the overall average financing of the 12 programme budget outcomes was 88% with 3 outcomes funded over 100% and 3 outcomes having less than 75% financing (see Budget section). Disaggregation of financing to the level of outcome and major office shows a number of outcomes with significant underfunding as biennium closed and highlights the chronic lack of sustainable financing to reduce funding gaps. It also underlines the importance of flexible resources, which are key to reduce chronic gaps in certain areas of work. As reiterated within the Sustainable Financing Working group discussions, as long as flexible and thematic funds remain the lesser proportion of resources available, improving allocation of resources can only be successful to a very limited extent.

Additional details for key figures on budget, financing and implementation for the outcome, presented by organizational level (Countries, Regions, Headquarters), contributors, type of expenses and much more can be seen by following the below link.